At the end of volume 1, no plot lines have been resolved. This is actually half a book and it is frankly misleading to imply anything else. You didn’t love this book-but did it have any redeeming qualities? Would you be willing to try another one of Christopher Ragland’s performances? Yes, if he learned how to give characters substance, to create engaging situations and stop thinking that we need to hear all the name dropping of luxury goods. Would you ever listen to anything by Terry Hayes again? Ten hours of my life I'm not going to get back. Oh, and you might like to know that this is "Volume 1" meaning that you'll need to spend another credit to listen to the second half of this story, that is if you can be bothered. And that is where this is probably best aimed, boys up to the age of about 13, but given the rather graphic violence, I wonder exactly who it is really aimed at. And the guy who is reading it is trying very hard to sound as if he is not trying very hard to sound like Tom Cruise his breathy and deep voices sound vaguely comical, and after a while call I could think of was his voice sounding like it would be more suited for The Muppets. It is frankly unbelievable, in the way that James Bond used to be. The main character is supposed to have risen to the top of his profession, but it just feels like the plot just conveniently gives him the right answers when he needs them, or he is put in the right place when he needs to be. The narrative is so shallow and the characters so unengaging. This is supposed to be some great new age spy thriller. What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you? This is now the entire audiobook, not in two parts. Pilgrim will have to make a journey from a public beheading in Mecca to a deserted ruin on the Turkish coast via a Nazi death camp in Alsace and the barren wilderness of the Hindu Kush in search of the faceless man who would commit an appalling act of mass murder in the name of his god. What begins as an unusual and challenging investigation will become a terrifying race against time to save America from oblivion. It is a textbook murder - and Pilgrim wrote the book. And it will take him to a run-down New York hotel room where the body of a woman is found facedown in a bath of acid, her features erased, her teeth missing, her fingerprints gone. It will help NYPD detective Ben Bradley track him down. But that book will come back to haunt him. Before he disappeared into anonymous retirement, he wrote the definitive book on forensic criminal investigation. The adopted son of a wealthy American family, he once headed up a secret espionage unit for US intelligence. Pilgrim is the code name for a man who doesn't exist. National Book Awards 2014: Crime/Thriller Book of the Year
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